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In this week’s edition of MCV, we talk to PlayStation’s global sales and marketing boss Jim Ryan about the firm’s two new consoles. Ryan explains the strategy behind the new slimmer version of the PS4, as well as its brand new and powerful PlayStation 4 Pro. Meanwhile Oculus’ head of …

Dota 2 legend and former TI champion Clinton "Fear" Loomis has retired from competitive play and will become a coach. Fear has been a part of the Evil Geniuses Dota 2 team since 2011, winning The International in 2015 and many other top tier tournaments along the way. He has …

After a six-year break, Wired is bringing back the We Sing karoake game brand. The firm has teamed up with publisher Nordic Games and developer Le Cortex to form a brand new company, the aptly titled We Sing Productions, entirely focused on this venture. Sometimes a break from an IP …

Just recently we’ve seen retailers selling consoles before they are announced, but how about the idea of a platform holder shipping one directly to a customer ahead of its reveal? It sounds too incredulous to be real, but apparently that’s exactly what happened in the run-up to the reveal of …

An unknown number of jobs have been cut from Sony’s London Studio as work begins to wrap up on the team’s first virtual reality project. Having developed many of the game prototypes for PlayStation VR – or Project Morpheus as it was originally known – the studio has been working …

But company will continue to develop new games after London Heist is released

Expanded programme aims to reach 15,000 pupils and 1,600 teachers around the UK

One game saw its user review score change from a very decent 88 to a far less inspiring 14 following Valve’s changes to the user review system on Steam yesterday. The new rules mean that customers who have obtained a game by redeeming a key as opposed to buying directly …

Universities now able to use the same motion capture tech as triple-A games firms, starting in the US

Stormrise, Viking: Battle of Asgard, Condemned, Planet 51, The Golden Compass, Iron Man, Let’s Tap, The Incredible Hulk… There was a period in Sega’s recent history where it released a seemingly endless number of (often not very good) games. Financially, the strategy worked for a while, specifically during the Wii …